The Dickinson press., 1887-11-19

AIaiIl' lreS near COrL 1dteS, ~. IL,
came nearly destroying the government
buildings. Many tons of hay were
burned.
Twenty-six alarms Of fire were turned
i'll ut st. Louis in fifteen hours. Fears
We're entertained that the hlazes were the
work of in%cendiaries, but the police scout
the idea and claim that tramps and boys
are the cause.
The long-continued dry weather is
causing much damage to winter wheat in
Illinois.
Secretary Lamar has intimnted to Land
Commissions Sparks that the interior
department is not quite large enough to
hold them both.
Chicago stock yards, owing to diminished
receipts. The season for shipping range
cattle is drawing to a close.
The attempt to organize the steel-pro-
ducing industries Of the United States
Into an association for mutual advantage
and protection is engaging the attention
OF the largest institutions Of the country.
The German government has issued
another warning against emigration to
America.
A collision ON the Manitoba road near
Glyndon between q freight and wild stock
train resulted in five deaths.
On Nov. 90 the Northern Pacific will
put on a fast limited train to the coast.
This train will leave ST. Paul at I p. M,
stopping only at the larger towns. The
time to Tacoma will be seventy-one and
onc-half hours, which is eleven hours
uhnrfor thon tho frrrnor f{~a
Certificates of incorporation of the
q. $. Congo Steamship and Immigration
company, with offices at Washington and
other cities, have been filed at Washing
IN. The capital stock is 81, 200, 600. 1t
is proposed to operate a steamship line
between the United States and the Congo
grants Il speciality.
Bud Trainer, a notorious Cherokee out
law, has given himself up to II United
States marshal.
II is predicted that the cut of pine this
winter on the Menomines river and its
tributaries will be between 600, 600, 900
and $50, 00O, 600 feet.
j. II. Chandler, of Chicago, has caused
something of a sensation among people
interested in mining property in Michi-
gan by presenting a claim to forty acres
Of land that has long been used by the
Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining com-
pany. His title is derived from a patent
granted him by the state, and rests for
its validity upon a recent decision of tho
United States supreme court.
Now York police are after Herr Most.
1t is now claimed Lingg used u genu-
Inc bomb, not q Illuminating cap, t. kill
himself.
Snow sheds and fences are being built
on the line of the Helena, Butte & Boul-
der railway.
The London Daily News commissioner
In Ireland describes the situation there as
one of social war. Rent has disappeared
and resistance to landlords is almost in
evitable.
Pipestone has voted $4,000 bonds for
water works, the vote standing III for
and 81 against. The contract is let to u
Dubuque firm, and the work will COM
mence at once.
The total number Of immigrants arriv-
ing in Canada during the past ten months
was 1sS,62O, compared with 1O2, 424 for
the same period last year. The number
settling in Canada was g., 7O1 against
$3.50.
The contract for the Fergus Falls
asylum will be let Dec. 20.
A large deposit Of lead has been discov-
cred near the northern boundary Of Saw
yer county, Wis.
A Washington dispatch states that Don
M. Dickinson, of Michigan, has notified
tho nrpsiIapt that bo will nccopt TIA Doo;-
ton Of acknowledgement.
New York police have decided to allow
no more anarchist meetings.
Crowds listen to Nh. Moody at the
First Baptist church and tabernacle in
Minneapolis.
A bomb was exploded in the Iowa Iron
works at Dubuque, doing considerable
damage to the building.
y meeting of 5000 Poles was held in
Posen to protest against the abolition of
the use of the Polish language in the
schools.
Pat killen is out with u challenge to
fight Patsey Cardiff fifteen rounds at the
Washington rink, Minneapolis, for all the
receipts or nothing.
Henry George lectures in Chicago Sat
urday night, and Minneapolis admirers
are making an attempt to get him to
come to that city and speak.
The question of flax raising is being
agitated, and the farmers are beginning
to realize that there is more money in
raising flax than in raising wheat.
Nicholas Hoffman, a saloon-keeper at
Sioux Falls, had his skull fractured by
being struck with a stone thrown by a
tough named Fischer. Condition criti-
cal.
Private advices have been received
stating that on Oct. : Henry NJ. Stanley
was 400 miles from Ermin Pasha, and
was taking half his force on forced
marches.
Scarlet fever is prevalent at St. Nath-
ans, Wis, and the schools have been
closed.
The Duluth, South Shore g. Atlantic
road will probably not reach Duluth be-
fore July, 1888.
Heavy forest fires are raging in the vi
cinity of Helena, Ark. Much damage is
done to cotton and fences.
Armed guards watch the vault where
the anarchists boeIies remain. Indica-
tions point to the fact that several of the
old groups have been reorganized.
The shoe manufacturers of the country
have formed a permanent association for
the purpose of making an effectual re-
sistance in case unjust demands are made
upon them by their employees.